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David S. Miller authored
Older versions of bintutils do not allow symbol math across different
segments on sparc:

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Assembler messages:
99: Error: operation combines symbols in different segments
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This is controlled by whether or not DIFF_EXPR_OK is defined in
gas/config/tc-*.h and for sparc this was not the case until mid-2017.

So we have to patch between %stick and %tick another way.

Do what powerpc does and emit two versions of the relevant functions,
one using %tick and one using %stick, and patch the symbols in the
dynamic symbol table.

Fixes: 2f6c9bf3 ("sparc: Improve VDSO instruction patching.")
Reported-by: default avatarMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Tested-by: default avatarMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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